tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post579495058544433686..comments2024-02-12T13:31:38.266+01:00Comments on Politics, Economy, Society: It’s the economy, stupidstudent SGHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-74799029230722910272015-07-14T20:17:45.948+02:002015-07-14T20:17:45.948+02:00Well, in social terms we have made several steps a...Well, in social terms we have made several steps ahead, yet the recent discussion on vitro brings out impression that our Polish backwater is still way behind European standards. If you can hear from an educated man children from in-vitro are born disfigured, there's still some way to go. <br /><br />Tadeusz Mosz was doing a great job, yet the target group which needs economic literacy the most is, I'd argue, immune to heritage of Mr Moszstudent SGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-24618617637034328302015-07-13T17:34:38.869+02:002015-07-13T17:34:38.869+02:00We civilise. It is inconceivable that today a part...We civilise. It is inconceivable that today a party could ever win an election by being racist, sexist or homophobic. No party would gain any kind of acceptance on a platform of 'brudasi won, baby do garów i cioty do gazu'. Yet the economic equivalent of this type of ignorant thinking is still with us. To look at the effects, look at Argentina or Venezuela, or indeed Brazil. Populist politicians bullshit their electorate into believing that a vote for them will make the poor richer. "Vote for me and I'll take money from the rich man, and give it to you, O poor man; there are many more like you in our democratic country than rich men".<br /><br />When I hear some of the promises made by PiS, I lament more than ever the untimely death of Tadeusz Mosz, who did so much to popularise economic knowledge in Poland. He'd have shown up the populists' promises for the ignorant crowd-pleasing slogans for what they are - and their long-term effects on the economy.<br /><br />We've come too far in 25 years to let the ignoramuses ruin our economy nowMichael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.com